Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society (1901) (14783264422)

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Title: Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society

Year: 1901 (1900s)

Authors: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. cn

Subjects: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society

Publisher: Bristol, Eng. : The Society

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ds in the middle of it. At half-past ten the members were received at All Saints Church bythe Vicar of Evesham (the Rev. J. M. Walker), who, after reading a fewprayers, welcomed the members of the Society to Evesham. The townwas, he said, full of interest, and the two churches and the battle-fieldwould amply repay examination. The people of the town were naturallyvery proud of the associations, ecclesiastical and historical, which attachedto their town. They still cherished the memory of Simon de Montfort, Evesham. 37 though as yet they had not succeeded in raising a monument to him.The proposal was started a short time ago, and though it was now inabeyance, before long it would be proceeded with, and then they hopedto have some worthy memorial standing near the bell tower to the greatchampion of English liberties. To Clement Lichfield, the last real abbotof the abbey, they owed the completion of the bell tower and twobeautiful chantries which they would shortly see; but he thought he

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ABBOT LICHFIELDS CHAPEL, ST. LAWRENCES CHURCH. could not do better than let Mr. Prothero give them some description ofthe churches, &c. Mr. Prothero, in the course of a short description of the ecclesiasticalbuildings of Evesham, said All Saints Church was mainly of the fourteenthcentury date; the chancel was modern. Abbot Lichfields chantry was arich example of sixteenth century style, with a fine fan-tracery roof andpendant. It was intact with the exception of the old glass and reredos. 38 Transactions for the Year 1901. West of the tower was a porch in a very unusual place. The roof wasan exceedingly fine example of fiat oak roofing, with an oak boss, onwhich were carved the crown of thorns and the five wounds. The lowerpart of Abbot Reginalds Gateway was intact more or less; the buildingabove was very much more modern, but exceedingly picturesque. Theother church, that of St. Lawrence, was hardly so interesting; for althoughthere were traces of an earlier foundation, it was pr

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